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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

It's Not Just Eskimos in Bikinis

Check out Chip Ward's article on the EnviroHealth site on the EcoSystem consequences of climate disruption. Hmmmm. Like that phrase so much I'll incorporate it here as a replacement for climate change. Snippets:

"Climate disruption" is probably a more accurate description of what
we are experiencing than mere "warming." Although the radical break in
climate patterns now underway will lead to rising oceans and expanding
deserts, the most insidious changes may be more subtle -- and as
unnoticed as the disappearance of the marmots may be.

The
intricate and precisely timed collaborations of plants, animals, birds,
and insects, fine-tuned over endless thousands of years of evolution,
is inevitably short-circuited when the weather goes whacky over periods
of time that are the geological equivalent of a wink. When
environmental events and biological events that once fit together lose
their synchronicity, the consequence can be extinction. Even the
Pentagon realizes that, if dependable local weather patterns become
erratic, chaos can ensue as, for instance, crops begin to fail. Some of
the less adaptable wild creatures, great and small, who share our
American backyards are already coping with the kind of eco-havoc we can
as yet only imagine for ourselves. For them, a more accurate
description of what is happening might be Eco-Topsy-Turvy or, perhaps,
Climate Helter-Skelter.

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It's Not Just Eskimos in Bikinis

Check out Chip Ward's article on the EnviroHealth site on the EcoSystem consequences of climate disruption. Hmmmm. Like that phrase so much I'll incorporate it here as a replacement for climate change. Snippets: